 | Samuel Pelton - Methodism - 1822 - 294 pages
...envying and strife in your hearts, glory not. and lie not against the truth This wisdom dcficendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For...is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, and then peaceable, i$•<;.* In addition to the word of God, it... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...envying and strife iu your hearts, glory not> and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For...strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Prov. iii. 30. Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. Prov. xxv. 8. Go... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...envying and strife in yout hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth, This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For...strife is, there is 'confusion, and every evil work." The scriptures which speak of the power of Christ to oppose and overcome this adversary, and the object... | |
 | John Evans - 1822 - 350 pages
...and lie not against the truth. This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish : for where envying and strife, is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good... | |
 | Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 pages
...down, and without walls. Q. 132. I)oth not confusion proceed from envy and strife? James, iii. 16, Ji. Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Q. 133. Is it not an honour to cease from strife? Proverbs, xx. 3. A. It is an honour for a man to... | |
 | 1822 - 746 pages
...the indulgence of a relentless spirit towards those with whom they are united by the closest ties. " Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." Whatever, therefore, has a tendency to destroy or counteract such sources of unhappiness and sin, ought... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pages
...your hearts, glory not, and He not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but his earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and...there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1890 - 994 pages
...part of his disciples toward all men, even to their enemies. An inspired Apostle has declared that " the wisdom which is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1823 - 514 pages
...(as if the doctrine of Christ were to be blamed for such misconduct :) " this wisdom descendeth not " from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish : " for, where envying and strife are, there is con" fusion and every evil work. But the wisdom " that is from above " (the gift of God... | |
 | Francis Barnett - 1823 - 372 pages
...intellectual riches shews, that it is " earthly, sensual, devilish ;" and an apostle has assured us, that " where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." " As few endowments were necessary to judge, so few have been supposed necessary to compose a novel;... | |
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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth... 
